Tagged: journalism

March 19, 2013 @ 7:00 am By Charles Luzar  |  

As you can guess, we receive a lot of media pitches for crowdfunding campaigns. I see certain patterns both in the way we’re pitched and the way I react to these pitches, and I think understanding these patterns can help any crowdfunder hone his or… Read More

December 31, 2012 @ 9:53 am By Marianne McCarthy, MediaShift  |  

Crowdfunding has skyrocketed in the past couple of years as entrepreneurs bypass traditional keepers of the purse and instead appeal to individual donors to help get their projects off the ground — and journalists have taken notice. Dogged by a lack of jobs and slumping… Read More

December 18, 2012 @ 5:12 pm By Forbes  |  

Matter is a success story that illustrates how the new economy is shaping up. Fine, but with a lot of emphasis on work-in-progress. We’ve known for a while that the tech community does things differently – would we have had collaboration software without the open source movement?… Read More

December 17, 2012 @ 2:34 am By Guardian  |  

Two years ago this month, the major online payment systems – Visa, Mastercard, PayPal and more – cut off one of the world’s most famous journalism organizations from the public. They stopped taking payments on behalf of WikiLeaks and, in the process, highlighted one of the most dangerous threats… Read More

December 7, 2012 @ 3:14 pm By Leonhard Dobusch  |  

Staff Translation Krautreporter: Crowdfunding-Plattform for journalism By Leonhard Dobusch The journalists Sebastian Esser and Wendelin Hübner have launched today a beta version of the project “Krautreporter”. The goal of the platform is to establish Crowdfunding for journalism in German speaking countries. A nice video is available at the start of… Read More

November 12, 2012 @ 2:21 am By JD Alois  |  

(Staff Translation) Whether through foundations, crowdfunding or financial transaction systems such as flatter or kachingle, these all are models showing how journalism can be financed going forward. Two years ago this was a topic of discussion at the local committee of the German Journalism Association… Read More

November 6, 2012 @ 5:10 am By JD Alois  |  

The funding campaign to ensure that Mosireen, the media collective in Cairo that supports citizen media, could stay independent reached fever pitch in its last day. With over $15,000 still needed to reach the desired $40,000 a mere 36 hours before the deadline, an outpouring… Read More

November 5, 2012 @ 6:13 am By JD Alois  |  

  Mosireen, a media collective in downtown Cairo that offers equipment and training to citizen journalists, was born out of the effort by activists to document the Egyptian revolution online. As the group’s mission statement says, that was vital during the street protests that drove… Read More